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How Hilarious and Awkward was the Larry King Live Finale?: A Movieline IM Discussion

Which cousin or coworker did you call during the traumatizing Larry King Live finale? You called someone. You didn’t make it alone. That I know. Personally, I jumped on IM with Movieline’s Julie Miller . Together, we decided Larry King’s swan song was the tri-gamete lovechild of CNN Newsroom , Night of a Thousand Stars , and A Clockwork Orange . Scary. Join us and suspender your disbelief.

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How Do You Know that How Do You Know is a Bad Movie?

How Do You Know , the new James L. Brooks movie that’s about, well, something, I suppose, is not very good. The title, presented in the form of a question (sort of), offers no clue to the merits of the film let alone hints to what the plot of this movie might be about. Honestly, after seeing this movie, I’m still not 100 percent sure what it’s actually about. With that in mind, I did my best to come up with 10 questions, Jeopardy! style, based on the title of the film, to offer some clarity to this pressing issue of our time.

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Buzz Break: The Good News and Bad News About Elisabeth Moss’s Pending Divorce

Tale of the Tape: Annette Bening and Julianne Moore Battle for The Kids Are All Right Best Actress Nomination

Fun/sobering fact about pop culture in the 21st century: It’s never too early to start thinking about the Oscars. Just yesterday it was revealed that summer darlings Annette Bening and Julianne Moore would both be submitted as Best Actress candidates for their performances in The Kids Are All Right . But which has the best chance of grabbing a nomination next year? Movieline investigates ahead.

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About that Time Eddie Murphy Was Considered for Goodfellas…

“I think I was the first person that Marty [Scorsese] met, but it took maybe a year,” Ray Liotta recalls in an exhaustive new oral history of Goodfellas . “It was a very, very long process, not knowing anything and really wanting to do this. I was new. I’d only done three movies at the time. All I heard was that the studio wanted somebody else–‘What about this?’ ‘What about Eddie Murphy?'” We will spare you an IM debate on the merits of this casting choice. [ GQ ]

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